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by chadcmulligan 3412 days ago
I don't hear much about the display on the MBP, it's as near to perfect as any display I've ever seen, using text is beautiful, the colour depth is extraordinary - and its a laptop.

I plugged in a new external 1080p monitor and thought at first there was something wrong with it, but no it's just the difference in crispness. Not only that you can run 2 external 5K monitors! from a laptop!

The SSD's are so fast, it's also so quiet - you never hear the fan. The only negative is it gets warm when charging on my lap.

I too don't see the point of the touchbar though, it's a cute gadget to play with. The sound is remarkable, though the whole laptop vibrates when the sound is turned up (edit: though there's no audible distortion or vibration noises which is pretty unique for a laptop too).

It is without a doubt the most perfect laptop I have ever owned, like everyone I would have liked to pay less for it. I'll use it for the next three years then give it too my daughter and she'll use it for another three years like my last one. I'm very happy with my purchase.

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Your points are largely moot, IMO. Nearly any laptop you can buy has super quick NVMe SSDs, super quick CPUs, and even great monitors. Heck, my Alienware 13R3 has an OLED monitor that puts the 13" MBP TB that I have to total shame.

Since everyone is running essentially commodity Intel hardware with commodity SSDs and commodity RAM and commodity GPUs with third-party sourced flat panels, the only thing that matters is the Touch Bar, keyboard and trackpad, and no matter how great the trackpad is, the Touch Bar is so bad it destroys everything else, and the keyboard and how loud it is destroys the rest.

Except that's your opinion... I love the Touch Bar and I love the new keyboard. It's no louder when I'm typing than it was when I was typing on my old Dell and yet I'm much faster on it since the keys don't wobble like they did on the Dell. The trackpad is awesome and I haven't been able to find the display that even comes close on any laptop without getting into the same price range.
While the alienware is a mighty machine, it's aesthetics and market are somewhat different. There are a number of feature points that differentiate it in my mind (weight, heat, elegance, glowing touchpad etc), I think we'll have to agree to disagree.
> I don't hear much about the display on the MBP, it's as near to perfect as any display I've ever seen

I mentioned it in my article. It has a wider gamut and brighter panel, but color fidelity wise it's worse than it's predecessors.

https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-bought-a-2015-macbook-pro-fad...

One thing I find odd about the display is that it somehow changes white balance occasionally depending on the content. I'm not sure if this only happens on BootCamp or not, but it's a bit surprising. Is there any setting to turn off this?
My MBP display occasionally gets a greenish tint.
Are you maybe running f.lux?
They mentioned context, not time of day.